The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne
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FWN 1511
Arbres dépouillés au bord de l'eau
c.1904
Alternate titles: Arbre dépouillé au bord de l'eau; Bare Tree at the Water's Edge; Bare Trees by a River; Bare Trees by the Water; Bare trees on the river side
Rewald (W631); Venturi revised: 1895–1900; Venturi (1552): c.1900
Watercolor on paper
12 1/4 x 19 5/16 in. (31.2 x 49 cm)
Provenance
Exhibition History
Paul Cassirer Ltd, London, Paul Cézanne – Water Colours, July 1939, no. 41, as Bare trees on the river side, dated about 1900, lent by Private collection.
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, The E.M. Remarque Collection, November 23, 1942–July 26, 1943, no number listed.
Knoedler Galleries, New York, Remarque Collection, October 18–November 13, 1943, no. 27.
Wildenstein Galleries, New York, Cézanne, March 27–April 26, 1947, no. 85, ill., as Arbre dépouillé au bord de l'eau, c. 1900, lent by E.M. Remarque.
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cézanne: Paintings, Watercolors & Drawings, A Loan Exhibition, February 7–March 16, 1952, no. 111, as Bare Tree at the Water's Edge, c. 1900, lent by Mr. Erich Maria Remarque, New York. Traveled to: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, April 1–May 16, 1952.
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, the Netherlands, Paul Cézanne, June 1–August 1, 1956, no. 80, ill. c. 1900, lent by E. M. Remarque, Ascona.
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 103, ill. c. 1900, lent by E. M. Remarque, Ascona.
Österreichische Galerie, Belvedere, Vienna, Paul Cézanne, April 14–June 18, 1961, no. 74, c. 1900.
Palais de Beaulieu, Lausanne, Switzerland, Chefs-d'œuvre des collections suisses: de Manet à Picasso, May 1–October 25, 1964, no. 103, ill., as Arbres dépouillés au bord de l'eau, 1900-1904, lent by M. Erich-Maria Remarque, Porto-Ronco.
Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., Cézanne: An Exhibition in Honor of the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Phillips Collection, February 27–March 28, 1971, no. 59, ill. Traveled to: The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, April 17–May 16, 1971; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1–July 3, 1971.
National Museum of Western Art, Tokyo, Cézanne, March 30–May 19, 1974, no. 84, ill., as Arbres dépouillés au bord de l'eau, c. 1904, lent by M. and Mme E. V. Thaw, New York. Traveled to: Municipal Museum, Kyoto, Japan, June 1–July 17, 1974; Cultural Center, Fukuoka, Japan, July 24–August 18, 1974.
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Drawings from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene V. Thaw, December 10, 1975–February 15, 1976, no. 100, ill., as Bare Trees by a River. Traveled to: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, March 16–May 2, 1976; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, May 28–July 5, 1976; National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, Canada, August 6–September 17, 1976 (Dessins de la collection M. et Mme Eugene V. Thaw).
The Museum of Modern Art, New York and Reunion des Musees Nationaux, Paris, France, Cézanne: The Late Work, October 7, 1977–January 3, 1978, no. 109, pl. 109, as Bare Trees by the Water, c. 1904, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Victor Thaw, New York. Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, January 26–March 19, 1978; Grand Palais, Paris, Cezanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978 (see Paris 1978a for a separate listing because the catalogue numbers are different from the two American venues).
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne: Les dernières années (1895–1906), April 20–July 23, 1978, no. 76, ill. in b/w, as Arbres dépouillés au bord de l'eau, c. 1904, lent by Eugene Victor Thaw, New York.
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 211, ill. in color, p. 487, as Arbres dépouillés au bord de l'eau, c. 1904, lent by The Morgan Library, New York, shown in Paris and London only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, New York Collects: Drawings and Watercolors, 1900-1950, May 20–August 29, 1999, no. 2, ill.
Acquavella Galleries, New York, Cézanne Watercolors, October 18–November 24, 1999, no. 21, ill.
The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, Drawing connections: Baselitz, Kelly, Penone, Rockburne, and the old masters, October 12, 2007–January 6, 2008, ill., p. 31, 37.
The Menil Collection, Houston, Becoming Modern: 19th-Century French Drawings from The Morgan Library & Museum and The Menil Collection, February 27–June 14, 2015.
Published References
Venturi, Lionello. Paul Cézanne: Water-colours. Oxford: B. Cassirer, 1943, p. 39, no. 26, ill. (dated c. 1900), E. M. Remarque.
Neumeyer, Alfred. Cézanne's Drawings. New York and London: Thomas Yoseloff, 1958, no. 91.
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 631, ill.
Schneider, Thomas F. and Inge Jaehner, eds. Remarques Impressionisten: Kunstsammeln und Kunsthandel im Exil / Remarque's Impressionists: Art Collecting and Art Dealing in Exile. Göttingen and Bristol: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2013, pp. 190-91, no. 9, ill.; p. 57 (list of artworks), c. 1938.
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, p. 256, fig. 182.
Tonkovich, Jennifer et Giada Damen. "Catalogue Raisonné." In Drawn to Greatness: Master Drawings from the Thaw Collection, Tonkovich, Jennifer, ed. New York: The Morgan Library & Museum, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, no. 45, ill., as Bare Trees by a River, c. 1900-1904.
Chédeville, François, and Raymond Hurtu. "Cezanne sur les bords de Marne." Société Cezanne, August 2021, fig. 303.
Record last updated January 6, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Arbres dépouillés au bord de l'eau, c.1904 (FWN 1511)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1614 (accessed on May 1, 2025).
